How to get a headstart on 2025 design trends with Furniture Village – with expert design tips from an interiors stylist

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the design trends of the last year, and look forward to what 2025 will hold for the world of interior design trends.

To help bring you a beautiful dose of design inspiration for the year ahead, we spoke with interiors stylist and creative director, Sally Denning, to get her take on some of the biggest interior design trends of 2024, as well as what kind of looks we can expect to be popular in the home in 2025.

With the help of Furniture Village’s latest collections, Sally explores how best to embrace these current trends in your home, while still curating an interior space that feels personal and connected to you and your own sense of style.

What interior design trends and styles have you loved in 2024?

"I’ve really loved the feeling of ‘home’ that’s evolved recently in interiors, I feel there is a real move back to what ‘home’ truly means. By creating a haven and a retreat away from the world, we create our own cosy and safe spaces that embody a truly unique look. With it, comes a grown-up country style that mixes different materials, textures, hand-me-downs, florals, checks and rich, strong colours and patterns in a more mismatched way that can fill a room with joy and life. It’s less about matchy-matchy, and more about an evolving scheme, freedom, individuality and a touch of nostalgia with things you really love.

In contrast, I’ve also loved calmer minimalist decor ideas, and architectural spaces inspired by sunnier climes. Inspired by nature’s palette, the use of warm hues and sandy tones, which are less busy and much sleeker than above, still creates a sense of cosiness and a cocooning feel that we seem to crave. I adore the simplicity of sculptured clays, rounded edges, natural stone, exposed timber ceilings, lime plaster and textured wood combined with sleek touches of boucle, thick textural fabrics, woven accessories and shimmering metallics and glassware.

Also, colour! Rich and vibrant room colour ideas have never been so popular and we seem to be able to understand how to use it in our homes now. Tones are rich, deep, mysterious, sophisticated, velvety and vibrant. We are no longer scared of it, and instead, we’re embracing it with full force which is wonderful to see, and the looks you can create can be utterly breathtaking.

I’ve also enjoyed seeing the revival of the ‘Unexpected Red theory’ play out, whilst it’s not actually a new trend and the concept has been around for years, I do love the ‘bringing in’ of an unexpected colour to a scheme, and that is a design tip that’s worth embracing. Bringing in a random colour, that shouldn’t be there, definitely adds character and elevates a room."

Sally Denning

Sally Denning is a freelance interiors stylist and creative director with over 25 years experience in the design industry. As well as representing a wide portfolio of interiors clients, both commercial and editorial, Sally has also worked on many leading interiors and womens’ interest magazines, and continues to style for Homes and Gardens magazine. 

What are your interior design trend predictions for 2025?

"I really hope that people trust their own instincts and believe in and invest in the things that reflect their characters and the things they love. I honestly feel that this, in turn, creates an entirely unique look that’s not a copy of an Instagram or Pinterest interior.

Natural materials will continue to endure for 2025 interior design trends. Embracing finishes such as marble, travertine alabaster, wood and stone will remain a strong trend. Experimentation with wood drenching, and touches of shimmering metals, like chrome, are also beginning to emerge, as well as a mix of contrasting materials, such as gloss with matt, textured with smooth, hard with soft.

Statement ceiling ideas where anything goes will also become an even stronger trend I think, from painting to wallpapering the fifth wall, or even adding texture with exposed joists or plaster detailing.

2025 will also see a rise in artisanal everything. From sourcing from local makers and investing in one-off pieces to create a timeless, handmade look.

And lastly lace. I think lace will be a micro trend, but don’t hold me to that!"

2025 interior design trends with Furniture Village

From cozy and cocooning earthy brown color palettes to nods to nostalgia with folk-inspired furniture, Furniture Village’s latest collections can work in elegant harmony with homes of all styles. Here, Sally takes us through some of her favorite Furniture Village trends, and how best to channel these looks in your own home.

Earthy browns

"Decorating with brown is big news this year, and so it should be, as it works brilliantly as a neutral in any room. Ranging from light clays to bold rich earthy tones, this wonderful hue will help to literally ground any scheme with its origins from the earth.

Browns will add warmth, depth and sophistication and always evoke a feeling of calm and stillness. Sometimes it’s not such an obvious choice as it usually occurs in everything from wooden furniture and flooring, but adding additional browns with paint ideas, ceramics, fabrics and statement furniture can create a beautifully smart and natural look that’s easy to live.

You can pair it with harmonious tones, or even contrasting strong colours; mix varying depths of browns for a contemporary, smart feel; a pale clay wall is a wonderful chic canvas for a piece like the Ariana Chocolate sofa with a pair of dark Dugan lamps elegantly placed to create a focal point against a lighter wall behind.

Remember, don’t be afraid to mix finishes too; the raw wood of the Kiara sideboard and sleek shimmer of the leather Director Chair work well together as opposites always attract in interiors. To finish off, include something that will help reflect light around a room or catch the sunlight, for example on a sideboard or a coffee table, a beautiful piece of Abstract art can work wonders, or the Kuza rug in a finish that is paler than the walls and furniture will help to lift the scheme.

If you’re worried about the palette becoming dull, add pops of metallics, natural stone and textural accessories throughout for added interest. It’s an easy-to-live-with look for sure and can be easily tweaked with a pop of a colourful accessory here and there with a colourful cushion or vase. Most importantly, don’t overcrowd this look, keep it elegant with carefully considered pieces, less is more with this look."

Green hues

"You can’t go wrong with a colour palette that is all around us. Nature will always inspire and greens will always be relevant with their association to the outside and bringing nature indoors. The wonderful muted hues in this trend are soothing, they tend to have a ‘lived-in’ quality about them, desaturated with black, grey or a complementary colour, where they speak softly and quietly to help create a tranquil, quiet scheme.

Here {pictured} the soft olive palette, filled with wood, leather, textural earthenware and organic finishes creates a relaxed look, and is livened up with interesting geometrics, stripes, checks, weaves, leather and velvet. Place textural earthenware on a sleek wooden Saturn table for a modern still life. Use open Saturn shelving, filled with your favourite decorative pieces, and finish with loose weave linens and woven rugs to create a focal point. Mix and match woods for a more relaxed vibe, the Alder table lamp and Saturn sideboard make for a strong partnership, and add in a Muscat chair for an added laid-back reading area in a corner of a room. Lastly, try mixing in coral accessories for a contemporary nod, it works as a new neutral and a move on from clay tones bringing warmth to the scheme.

Biophilic design also works well and will bring any home to life, connecting us to nature and nature's processes to improve our health and wellbeing. Large, foraged branches or wintery twigs can bring a natural sculptural art piece to a room when placed in a large vase or bell jar in the corner, in a fireplace, or centrally on a dining table.

Folk-inspired designs

"This season’s delicate and more feminine theme is playful and decorative without being too overpowering. Again, being inspired by the beauty of a romantic garden, pretty geometrics and exotic patterns, it’s a look that you can add as much or as little as you like and throw out the rulebook.

Embrace the folky style of florals and bright colours with a simple cushion, fresh blooms, or added stripes or chintz to a sleek wooden Stockholm dining table in a kitchen or dining area; or pile up cushions and textiles for a relaxed feeling that isn’t too co-ordinated. Dusky pinks, soft lilacs, and purples all combine to create an eclectic look, and while these tones maintain an overly feminine look, the modern curved sleek furniture of the Stockholm Oak range can help to keep the look more contemporary rather than going too country.

In a living space, combine soft pink base tones and the Legend sofa in Kingston Blush to create a seamless, beautiful blend. Bring in the darker fabric of the Legend Chair in Cosmo Plum and the Acanthus lamp to help personalise the scheme and provide a note of contrast. The modern Murata wooden coffee table also can help prevent this space from being too girly, giving it a chic, contemporary edge. Fill surfaces with ceramics in different shapes and colours to add interest and texture, and fill with blooms or single stems - flowers always add life to a home. Remember, for this trend, anything goes."

Colour saturation

"Colour saturation refers to the intensity of a colour; a highly saturated room filled with bright or vivid colour. The colour drenching trend proves that you can immerse yourself in just one tone across all surfaces in a room covering everything from ceilings to walls and skirting boards to sofas creating a cocooning and dynamic effect. Despite the intimidating amount of colour you may use here, it can actually make a room feel more cohesive and sophisticated; adding depth and drama and creating a look that embraces rather than intimidates.

Here, walls and ceilings are painted in a deep teal, and the sofa and footstool in velvety blue blend into the wall and ceiling colour providing a cohesive look. Curtains of the same depth and a mottled Inca Teal footstool both add a touch of life with a delicate tonal pattern. If it’s a bit daunting to use just one colour, inject an accent to break it up and pepper with warm oranges, ambers or rust for a welcome addition. The Tawny rust velvet of the At the Helm Wallace Armchair brings a welcome break to the overall blue scheme, a pop of ochre on the sofa adds extra life, and glassware will bring a welcome highlight.

Other colours would also work well with teal are pinks or greens. These ‘Mono’ rooms, with tone-on-tone decor are an elevated and fun way of layering a single huge within a space, so go for it, you may just love it. Working well in a living space, bedroom or dining room, anywhere where you want to create drama and a cosy atmosphere."

Whether you’re looking to refresh parts of your home in 2025, or are simply intrigued by the latest interior design trends, we hope Sally’s expert advice and Furniture Villages’ beautiful new collections have left you feeling inspired for the year ahead – it’s time to get moodboarding!